The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace". (Tacitus, The Histories AD 68). The Emperor Nero's erratic and...

70AD. Disgraced, dishonoured, and banished into exile on pain of execution if he ever returns to Rome, the former military tribune Gaius Valerius Verrens makes his way East through the death and destr...

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, is Rome's Greatest General, so popular is Corbulo with his men that he effectively presides over an Empire within an Empire. Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of Rome, is ordered t...